About this item
"I'm sitting on the floor in my mother's house, surrounded by stuff." So begins Jennifer Howard's Clutter, an expansive assessment of our relationship to the things that share and shape our lives. Sparked by the painful two-year process of cleaning out her mother's house in the wake of a devastating physical and emotional collapse, Howard sets her own personal struggle with clutter against a meticulously researched history of just how the developed world came to drown in material goods. With sharp prose and an eye for telling detail, she connects the dots between the Industrial Revolution, the Sears & Roebuck catalog, and the Container Store, and shines unsparing light on clutter's darker connections to environmental devastation and hoarding disorder.
About the Author
Jennifer Howard is from Peterstown, West Virginia and she LOVES books! She reads them, falls asleep with them on her chest--she would probably eat them if they provided any type of nutritional value! She has always had a passion for writing, but only recently took the plunge of jumping into the self-publishing world, cannonball style! As much as she enjoys all things literary, she especially loves connecting with others and making new friends. She can't wait to hear YOUR story!
